Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Drive to the World's BIGGEST TREE in Sequoia National Park and back. Dash Cam Tours 2020

We start driving from a nearest town, called Three Rivers and going through the Sequoia National Park's toll booth, where they charge $35 per vehicle to enter the park.

On this drive, we enter Sequoia National Park through its southern entrance near the town of Three Rivers at Ash Mountain at 1,700 ft elevation.

The lower elevations around Ash Mountain contain the only National Park Service-protected California Foothills ecosystem, consisting of blue oak woodlands, foothills chaparral, grasslands, yucca plants, and steep, mild river valleys.

The region is also home to abundant wildlife: bobcats, foxes, ground squirrels, rattlesnakes, and mule deer are commonly seen in this area, and more rarely, reclusive mountain lions and the Pacific fisher are seen as well.

The California Black Oak is a key transition species between the chaparral and higher elevation conifer forest.

At higher elevations in the front country, between 5,500 and 9,000 feet in elevation, the landscape becomes montane forest-dominated coniferous belt.

Found here are Ponderosa, Jeffrey, sugar, and lodgepole pine trees, as well as abundant white and red fir.

Found here too are the giant sequoia trees, the most massive living single-stem trees on earth.

Between the trees, spring and summer snowmelts sometimes fan out to form lush, though delicate, meadows.

In this region, visitors often see mule deer, Douglas squirrels, and American black bears, which sometimes break into unattended cars to eat food left by careless visitors.

There are plans to reintroduce the bighorn sheep to this park


Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California.

The park was established on September 25, 1890 to protect 404,064 acres of forested mountainous terrain.


The park is notable for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, the largest tree on Earth by volume.

The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five of the ten largest trees in the world.

The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home of the General Grant tree among other giant sequoias.

The park's giant sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

 The parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.


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